ART 243 History of Art - Ancient World Through the Middle Ages (5 credits)

2. Define the role of basic visual elements and principles of design, architecture, and iconography within a cultural and social context.

3. Identify basic types of media and styles prevalent in architecture, painting, sculpture, drawing, and mixed media.

4. Identify major approaches and their characteristics that evolved from the dawn of humanity to the end of the gothic period.

Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of human experience.

Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

Potential Methods
A. Essay questions
B. Discussion-Instructor observation of group or individual driven discussion
C. Compare/contrast-compare and contrast essay questions
D. Image identification-image identification questions
E. Museum and gallery visits
F. Artist presentations/both written and verbal presentations
G. Tests and quizzes